Rose Gottemoeller: “This treaty imposes no constraint on U.S. efforts to modernize its nuclear enterprise.”

The biggest issue now, I think, sir, is to look for ways to incentivize China to come to the negotiating table.

I am concerned, frankly, if New START goes out of force or is seen as unlikely to be extended that this will deal a significant blow to this larger non-proliferation system that keeps an explosion of nuclear weapons States from occurring…

It will provide ongoing transparency and predictability regarding the world's two largest nuclear arsenals.

Without a treaty, we would have significantly less predictability regarding Russia's strategic force plans for the next 10 years.